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 Martha saith to Him: "I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

Jesus said to her: "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, although he be dead, shall live Believest thou this?"

She saith to Him: "Yea, Lord, I have believed that Thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world."

The grand confession of Cæsarea Philippi over again!

And, when she had said these things, she went and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: "The Master is come and calleth for thee."

She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly and cometh to Him. The Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: "She goeth to the grave to weep there."

When Mary, therefore, was come where Jesus was, seeing Him, she fell down at His feet and saith to Him: "Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died."

Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her weeping, groaned in the spirit, and troubled Himself, and said: "Where have you laid him?"

They say to Him: "Lord, come and see."

And Jesus wept.

The Jews, therefore, said: "Behold how He loved him."

But some of them said: "Could not He that opened the eyes of the man born blind have caused that this man should not die?"

Jesus, therefore, again groaning in Himself, cometh